Building healthy neighbourhoods: Shared learning from the Neighbourhood Health Improvement Project

When you're trying to create the conditions that make it easier for people to live healthy lives it makes sense to think local. Life expectancy in the Western Trust’s most deprived areas is 4.4 years less than the trust area average for men, and 2.8 years less for women.

The Neighbourhood Health Improvement Project (NHIP) brings together representatives from the community, voluntary and statutory sectors to improve health and well being and reduce health inequalities in six neighbourhood renewal areas in the north west.

Join us on Zoom to hear public health experts and those working on the ground in Derry City, Strabane and Limavady discuss what really works when it comes to neighbourhood health.

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